The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion - Who Is Mankar Camoran?
Mankar Camoran is the secondary antagonist in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion—he's the head of the Mythic Dawn, a cult of Daedra worshippers trying to bring Mehrunes Dagon to Nirn and staging an assassination of the Emperor to do so. But there's a lot more to this elf than his villainous machinations.
He's a father, a figure ascended with his own pocket of Oblivion, and a prolific, infamous author. To put it lightly, he's made a name for himself, and steeped in mystery, controversy, and debate outside the game among Elder Scrolls sleuths.
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Our introduction to him is through his books, long before we find him indoctrinating would-be cultists in his derelict cave of a den. We later face him directly in Paradise, cutting him down. But this does little to stop Mehrunes Dagon who does, as we know, break into Nirn directly, invading the Imperial City in the explosive finale of Oblivion's main questline. However, there's more to Camoran than being a pawn of a demon.
Camoran's race is an interesting topic—the lore he's said to be a Bosmer, although in-game he's an Altmer. But both of his parents are Bosmer, so this makes little sense. You might assume that maybe he's adopted, or perhaps it was a mistake on Bethesda's part, but there are a few other intriguing theories for his Altmer appearance.
Camoran may have used Mehrune's Razor to alter his own nymic—a nymic, for reference, is someone's incantatory name. You can summon Daedra by using their true name, while Mehrune Dagon himself was banished in The Elder Scrolls Online by an Ambition using their nymic. Nymics are also an important part of Bosmer culture, as priests called Namespinners
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